Debts and Debuts Mark Global New Year Celebration
The New Year began with lavish spending as debts were paid worldwide. Highlights include Mrs Edward B McLean’s $50,000 Washington party for her son’s 21st, and varied festivities from Moscow to Miami.
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Charles E Barsita
Tress
Weller
Red Square
T. Tomes Square
Onas
Fator
China
Eeryone
Metropole
Moscow
Globe
Edward B McLean
Washington
Jock
Spain
Madrid
Japan
Blum
France
Philippine
United States
Parks Weds Society Figure After 1994 Open Title
Pittsburgh AP reports Sam Parks, 1994 Open champion, married Miss Jean Davison, a Pittsburgh society figure. The couple planned a western wedding trip to play in golf tournaments, with details of travel and arrangements described amid posting notices and society chatter.
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Sam Parks
Pittsburgh
Jean Davison
Parks
Alice in Blunderland and China’s Confessions
An analysis contrasts American and Chinese leadership, noting an American public official who admits policy errors and crimes while a lunacy commission is discussed. In China the dictator and a kidnapper general confess sins, seek punishment, yet neither side yields. The piece questions understanding between China and America.
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Pleeeran
Republlic
China
America
Alice Longworth
Coughlin Urges Christian Ethics in Labor Settlement
Father Charles Coughlin returned to the air with an appeal for Christian principles to guide industrial disputes during a new era, warning that the social security plan could threaten laborers. He urged workers and industrial leaders to seek steadfast moral standards over confrontation.
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Royats
Oak
Mich
Charles Fo Coughlin
Coughlin
Laner
Industes Nest
Morgan
Winter Closes Its Icy Grip On Civil War
Winter tightens its hold as siege and snow veiled Madrid front lines. Bodies stacked in a truck head to a cemetery, while wounded suffer in cold dugouts and ambulances struggle to field hospitals. Fascist guards shiver for safe passes as crews gather wood and sleep on hay.
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Madrid
New York
Madid
Chang Hsueh-Liang Hopes For Clemency In Prison
Nanking reports Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, who detained Chiang Kai-Shek for a fortnight, is in a military prison and seeks clemency for early release. A formal petition for pardon may be considered after Monday as Chiang Softens stance on responsibility for the Sian-Fu uprising.
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Nanking
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Chang
Large Fire Destroys Stone Harger Homestead Near Lone Tree
A ten room house on the William Cermey farm near Lone Tree was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Known as the Stone Harger homestead, the farm is owned by Cermey whose son in law Floyd Malnix lives there. Most furniture was saved. Fire started from a defective chimney. Loss partly covered by insurance.
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William Cermey
Stoneharger
Cermes
Floyd Malnix
Doo-No-Me device aims to wake sleep prone drivers
In Columbus Carl E Brown patents a wearable chin guard that fits over the Adams beaded chin watch and top bell alarm to rouse drowsy motorists. The device promises awakening of all but blind and deaf persons.
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Columbus
Carl E Brown
Ps Automotive
Adams
Baugh and Meyer spark TCU past Marquette in Cotton Bowl stunner
Slinging Sam Baugh and reserve end L D Meyer powered Texas Christian to a 16 to 6 Cotton Bowl victory over Marquette. Meyer scored the points on a field goal and a touchdown aided by Baugh’s passes while Buzz Bulvid and Ray Meyer contributed in a high scoring first half.
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Dallas
Tex
Sam” Baugh
Texas Christian
L. D. Meyer
Marquette
Golden Avalanche
Baugh
Meyer
Leo
Dutch) Meyer
Christians
Scott McCall
Willie Walls
Cuff
Christian
Art Gueppe
Avalanche
Guepe
McCall
Roberts
Montgomery
Christian Hine Smackers
Ray
Buzz) Bulvid
Summon Troops 70 Oust Woman Mayor
A Dayton Beach ouster set replacement commissioners Harry Wilcox Henry Pollitz Harry W Drake and A C Hawk ins Fred H Conrad as clerk left city manager post vacant. New rulers planned a Friday meeting likely to dismiss police and fire departments leaving a 16 000 strong city without police protection. The American Legion organized patrols to deter disorder amid police reorganization.
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Sholtz
Harry Wilcox
Henry G. Pollitz
Harry W Drake
A C Hawkins
Fred H Conrad
Daytona Beach
American Legion
Coralville Man Shot By Rock Island Policeman
Clark McGinnis of Coralville Iowa was critically wounded when Rock Island merchant officer Orville Bryan fired at him during a garage encounter. Bryan says McGinnis attempted a hold up, fled through a window, and again fled after shots were fired into his back as he ran down an alley.
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Rock Island
Clark McGinnis
Coralville
Orville Bryan
Bryan
McGinnis
Wisconsin Man Dies After Wall Sign Post Fall
Milwaukee AP reports 53 year old Fred Natzel died after strong gusts knocked him from a 20 foot ladder while he hung signs on a billboard. His head struck a cement sidewalk in the incident Thursday.
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Milwaukee
Fred Natzel
Retail Merchants In Many Lines Report Marked Gain In Business In 1936
Retailers surveyed in 1936 report a broad upswing with department stores posting their second largest year and a late surge into December. Jewelry and luxury goods show strong annual gains, radio sales soar, luggage and shoes rise, and furniture trades stay brisk after Christmas. Several firms note December gains around 10 to 30 percent versus 1935, with overall yearlong improvements except in the hottest weather.
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Cedar Rapids
Think Mattson Case Near Solving After Kidnapping
The Tacoma physician’s family marked his birthday hoping for the return of his son. Five telephone lines connected with the kidnapper kept relatives hopeful as the boy remained missing for six days. The case echoed the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, where a $200000 ransom preceded release after eight days.
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Tacoma
Mattson
Charles
George Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser
Two gunmen sought in Ta coma boy kidnapping case
Springfield state police hunted two machine gun armed bandits who may be the abductors of 10 year old Charles Mattson of Ta coma Washington. The pair held up two Evansville women Thursday night, stealing their car and taking a companion, a child or woman, with them as they fled toward the river. Police believe the companion’s transfer to the stolen car and their life or death warning suggests kidnaping activity.
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Springfield
Illinois
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Here
Red” Antle
Elmer Lee Walling
Mattson
Walter Williams
Lucile van Winkle
Alene Baldwin
Evansville
Ind
Mattoon
Osceola
Ark
Joseph Evers
van Wert
Evers
Funeral of Mrs Ellen Strothers Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Strothers 86 will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Linn Grove Presbyterian church with Dr Lloyd Morris of Coe College in charge She died Tuesday at her son J B Strothers home in Linn Grove She was widow of Amos Strothers Linn County supervisor 1904 to 1910 and had been a member of Linn Grove Presbyterian Church for 67 years She had lived in Los Angeles for 26 years Survived by son daughter Blanche Johnston Roswell S D twelve grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
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Mount Vernon
Ellen Strothers
Linn Grove Presbyterian Church
Lloyd Morris
Coe College
Los Angees
Blanche Johnston
Roswell, S. D
Fisher resigns from RFC board to become Michigan banking commissioner
President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Charles J. Fisher Jr. of Michigan as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Fisher, long with the RFC, will serve as banking commissioner for Michigan under Governor Frank Murphy starting Friday, after previously managing the Detroit RFC branch.
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Washington
Roosevelt Friday
Charles 7. Fisher, Jr
Michigan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Fisher
RFC
Frank Murphy
Detroit
U S Planes Shipped Toward Spain From Mexico Route
Reports detail shipments of American aircraft including Condors and Lockheeds destined for Spain via Mexico and Vera Cruz. The Motomar project, linked to Spanish interests, involves transfers through Tampico and Vera Cruz with plans to augment cargo airlift before the Spanish ambassador visits Washington.
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Senger
United States
Mexico
American Air Lines
America
South America
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Frank McConnell
Charles A. Lindbergh
Felix Gordon Audaz
Washington
Motomar
Passport ban tightens for Americans traveling to Spain
Washington reports an almost total ban on US passports for travel to Spain. Only a few news correspondents and Red Cross workers are exempt. The move aims to deter Americans from enlisting or aiding in the Spanish civil war and stalls shipments tied to a $2,777,000 overhaul order.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Spain
Red Cross
Universal Service
Robert Cuse
Jersey City
Europe
Fireman's Strange Death in New Jersey
Fireman Thomas Heagney died after leaving his sick bed to watch a station alarm run. He toppled from his roof as the company answered a false alarm and later died at a hospital.
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Weehawken
Thomas Heagney
Glidden reports 3.85 million dollar profit for year
Adrian D. Joyce Glidden president announces in a stockholder letter that the paint and varnish company realized net profits of 3 85 468 in the fiscal year ending October 21 in Cleveland AP report ICT
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Cleveland (Ap
Adrian D. Joyce
Glidden Company
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